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So tell me how old you are and who is in your family? |
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I'm 19. I've got my mum, sister and my brother, older brother - both older than me. |
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And tell me what you're doing in your life at the minute? |
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At the moment I've just finished an art foundation course at college and next year I'm going away to university in London to study graphic design.
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So when did you find out about having Klinfelter's? |
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It's quite a funny story, actually. I was 10 and I was on my way to Great Ormond Street on the train and that's when my mum told me I had KS and I strangely said that I always knew I was different. It's quite funny. I was a bit young. I just felt inside I guess. |
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What did you feel when she told you? |
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I can't really say, it was such a long time ago. I was just like, just wanted to know more about it really. Well I'm happier knowing than not knowing. |
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What was it like when you were a child? |
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I was bullied from like quite an early age. My first, like, I don't know what year it was, years ago, I moved school because of it, because I think I was quite fat and stuff. But look at me now, I'm alright. When I was about 14 I got gynaecomastia which wasn't very good because I was a bit self conscious of myself. I think it was cos I was like really sensitive. Actually, I can't remember, about seven years old it started. And then I left my school at eleven and moved to boarding school. And that was... I left at Christmas time and started there at Easter time so it was in the middle of the year.
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Did you have much support then? |
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Yes they had a special learning difficulties department. About a third of the school was... well a third of the pupils were had special needs and needed like support, like one to one tuition, so that was a benefit in that way. |
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